Sir Lancelot du Lake. Family of Pendrell. [Nov.

"If thou be of the Table Round," quoth

"Both thee and all thy fellowship Futterly ONE of your correfpondents, in a

For he gave back for wearinefs, and low did A Commentary or explanation on a

pofiler in English; for it is now become an English word, and is inferted in Johnfon's Dictionary. Dr. John Boyfe, the learned Dean of Canterbury, intituled his Commentary on the Epiftles L. E. and Gofpels, Poftill.

Mr. URBAN,

SEE

OЯ. 28.

EEING, in p. 526, that fome of your correfpondents are defirous of an illustration of the perfons mentioned by Bancroft in his book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, I take the liberty of informing you what little I know of one of the families, if you think it worth your notice.

The Sir Thomas Milward, celebrated, by Bancroft, was a defcendant of John Milward, one of the Captains of the city of London, and first Governor of the Corporation of the Silk Trade. Sir Thomas was Chief Juftice of Chefter; John Milward, and the Captain, who was drowned in the river Trent, were

brothers (I believe) to Sir Thomas.
The portraits of thefe two gentlemen
used to hang one on each fide Sir Ti:o-
mas, who was drawn at full length in
his Judge's robes. His principal refi-
dence was at Eaton Dovedale, in the
county of Derby. He was remarkable
for his attachment to King Charles the
First, in whofe caufe he expended much
He alfo entertained that mo-
money.
narch at Dovedale hall, when the King
lay at Uttoxeter. The table at which
his Majesty fat was held facred by the
family, and was not removed for feve-
ral years after. The eldeft fon of Sir
Thomas cut off the entail of the Dove-
dale eftate from his only fon. It was
afterwards fold to Godfrey Clark, efq.
of Chilcote, in whofe family it remains.
The house is now in ruins. Sir Thomas
Milward's depofed grandfon retired to
a village in Stafford hire, where he died
at an advanced age within thefe few
Yours, &c. L. M.
years.

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT, 1791. (Concluded from p. 922.)

In the Commons, the fame day, a new writ was moved for Milbourne Port, in the room of W. Coles Medly cott, efq. who had accepted the three Chiltern hundreds.

The Houfe, in a Committee of finance, proceeded to examine and difcufs the remaining refolutions moved by Mr. Sheridan; on several of which a warm debate arofe between the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, and Meffrs. Fox and Sheridan; the former defending the report of the Committee of finance of 1786; while the latter reprobated it as a fallacious report, fabricated only from the official accounts laid before the Committee. As the Committee proceeded, the refolutions were either amended or negatived. The whole of the refolutions propofed by Mr. Pitt were agreed to; and, after a tedious debate of feveral hours, moftly on minute GENT. MAG. November, 1791.

and abftrufe calculations, the House adjourned at one o'clock in the morning.

H. OF

LORDS.
June 8.

The Lord Chancellor oppofed the third reading of the bill refpecting libels. He thought a proper time ought to be given to their Lordships to confider it maturely. His Lordship did not mean, by oppofing it now, that it fhould be understood that he was averfe to its being taken up in another feffion. His Lordfhip moved, "that the bill fhould be read the third time that day month."

Lord Stanhope oppofed the motion as perfectly unneceffary and improper.

Lord Camden declared himself decidedly in favour of the bill; the principle which it profeffed entirely coincided with his fentiments upon the fubject. He had always been of opinion, that the jury had a right to take all the circumstances into their confideration, and to give a general verdict. He concluded with obferving, that their Lordhips must give the power either to the judge or the jury; and, in his opinion, that power could not be better difpofed of than by being vested in the hands of twelve impartial Englishmen. His Lordfhip, however, agreed in the propriety of putting off the bill.

Lord Loughborough was in favour of

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the bill, but was of opinion that it ought to be poftponed.

The Marquis of Lanfdown, in a very long fpeech, opposed the motion; when the queftion was carried without a divifion.

Earl Fitzwilliam, after a fhort preface, moved, "that an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, to reprefent to his Majesty the great benefit that would be derived to the kingdom from the continuation of the prefent feffion, in the prefent critical conjun&ture of affairs.'

A long debate enfued upon this motion, which was fapported by Lords Stormont, Carlife, Lauderdale, Rawdon, and the Marquis of Lansdown; and oppofed by Lords Grenville and Cathcart; and at length negatived without a divifion.

In the Commons, the fame day, a new writ was ordered to be iffued for Edinburgh, in the room of Mr. Henry Dundas, appointed Secretary of State.

H. OF LORDS.

June 9. The Birmingham canal and the Bank loan bills were read the third time, and paffed.

In the Commons, the fame day, a new writ was ordered to be iffued for

Weymouth, vacated by Thomas Jones, cfq. having accepted the ftewardship of

the Chiltern hundreds.

H. OF LORDS.

June 10.

His Majefty went in ftate to the Houfe, and gave his royal affent to nine bills; after which, Sir Francis Moly neux, Ufher of the Black Rod, was fent to defire the attendance of the Commons. The Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, attended by feveral members, being at the bar, his Majefty delivered the following moft gracious fpeech:

"My Lords, and Gentlemen,

"In clofing the prefent feffion of parliament, I cannot omit expreffing My fatisfacsion in that zeal for the public interefts with which you have applied yourselves to the confideration of the different objects which recommended to you attention.

I

"The measures which have been adopted for defraying the extraordinary expences of the laff year, in fuch a manner as not to make any permanent addition to the public burthens, and the provifions which have been made for the good government and profpe

I

[Nor.

rity of My fubjects in Canada, call for my particular acknowledgements.

"Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons, "I return you My thanks for the readinefs with which you have granted the fupplies neceffary for the public fervice, and for the proof of your affectionate attachment, in enabling Me to provide for a part of the mily, out of the Confolidated Fund. charges of the younger branches of My fa

"My Lords, and Gentlemen,

the refult of the fteps which I have taken "I am not yet enabled to inform you of with a view to the re-establishment of peace between Ruffia and the Porte. It is my earneft wish that this important object may be effectuated in fuch a manner as may contri bute to the prefervation and maintenance of the general tranquillity of Europe. I feel; with the greatest fatisfaction, the confidence which you have reposed in Me, and My conftant endeavours will be directed to the purfuit of fuch measures as may appear refts and happiness of My people, which are to Me best calculated to promote the inteinfeparable from My own."

The Parliament was then prorogued to Tuesday, the 16th of August.

In the Commons, new writs were or dered for Queenborough, Pontefract, Dover, Haflemere, and Newton.

The Speaker, on his return from the House of Peers, read a copy of the fpeech; and the members feparated.

Mr. URBAN,

October 22.

YOUR inquifitive correfpondent, in

p. 624 (fee alfo p. 725), may learn many very curious particulars relative to "fwallows, fwifts, and martins," from the "Natural History of Selborne," referred to in p. 619, col. 2; of which inftructive and entertaining Work your former volumes have exhibited foare valuable fpecimens.

An imperfect copy of Mr. Locke's epitaph, enquired after in p. 563, col. 1, and printed in pp. 697, 8, may be found in p. 183 of Popham's “Illußrium Virorum Elogia Sepulchralia, London, 1778," 8vo: a work which, had it not been fo very incorrectly printed, might have been of real use.

fon's letter addreffed to Dr. CHARLETT, P. 698, col. 2. Was not Mr. Addletters in the Bodleian library" (mento whom the "valuable collection of tifement to the fourth volume of Bishop tioned by Mr. Nichols, in his adver Atterbury's " Epiftolary Correfpond ence," belonged? When will the fe lection from thole letters be "prefented to the publick

P: 7:49

P. 714, col. 2, 1, 24. The reference to the note fhould be removed from "John" to "Robert."

P. 721. From the letters with which the Luck of Edenhall is charged, may it not be conjectured that it was originally defigned for a facramental chalice?

P. 737, col. I, 1. 5, read "Roberts." P. 777, col. 1, for "William Gibfon" read Robert." He was the laft furviving fon of that truly eminent prelate Bishop Gibfon.

P. 780, col. 1, 1. 27. Should not "Mr." be fubftituted for "Mrs."?

P. 789, col. 1. Robert Pigott appears, from Bridges's "Hiftory of Northamptonfhire," I. 131, to have been the fon of Mrs. Anne Pigott, of Shrewsbury, "the daughter of Sir John who was Dryden, of Canons Ashby." In the fecond volume of the "Tour through Great Britain, Lond. 1778," the following paffage occurs in p, 383: "The great inn, called the George, at the corner of the High-ftreet [in Northampton], looks more like palace than an inn; cost above 2000l. building; and fo generous was the owner, that, as we are told, when he had built it, he gave it to the poor of the town.”

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

HAV

ANTIQUARIUS.

Oober 21. AVING been juft informed that the feed or flower of the grafs, which is more or lets to be found in all hay, is prejudicial to borfes, I fhall be much obliged to any of your correfpondents, who are killed on the subject," for their fentiments upon it. The doctrine is perfectly new to me, nor have I more than a fingie authority for the truth of it. I have always confidered the feed of the hay as the most fubftantial and nutritive part of it; in the fame manner as the ears of wheat are better calculated for human food than straw. If, however, I am mittaken in my ideas, I fhall follow the example of a neighbour, and, left mifchief befall my horles, fhall direct all the hay, defined for their ufe, to be carefully threshed before it is given to them.

AGRICOLA.

Mr. URBAN, Haydonbridge, Nov. 1. T is very much my wifh that your correfpondent OEdipus, as well as, every admirer of my late excellent relation, Dr. Brown, author of the "Efimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times," should have a fatisfactory anfwer to the query in p. 790 of your

Magazine for September laft, concerning the work he left unpublished, intituled, Principles of Chriftian Legiflation." On the publication of the fecond volume of the "Biographia Britannica," I found a furprize expreffed in the Life of Dr. Brown, that this work had not been given to the publick; and it was (not very handfomely) obferved, that I might have ventured to publish it without any danger of lofs. It was there faid allo, "the above work appears to have been compleated, though it was not in all parts fairly transcribed and that the Editors of the Biographia are not able to allign the reafons why the orders of Dr. Brown's will have not been carried into execution.”

To give the publick fome fatisfaction on this fubje&t, I wrote to the Editor of the Biographia, and defired it might be inferted in the addenda to the fubfequent volume of that work,

"That what my friend had left of the "Principles of Chriftian Legiflation" was only one book of eight, which his work was to confift of: that he did not even leave a

complete analyfis of it: that I was, how-
ever, difpofed at the time to give it immedi
ately to the publiek, but found I was not at
liberty to depart fo far from the letter of the,
Doctor's will as to publith it fingly; and the
compliance with his orders to re-publish his
whole works, together with the new one, I
had every reafon to decline from the advice
of friends, the reprefentations of the worthy
and intelligent book feller concerned with
me, and the confideration of juftice to the
purchafers of his former works, who might
with reafon complain, that they could not
have the new work without re-purchasing
all the others. I added that, independent of
thefe obftructions, other reafons occurred to

me on more mature confideration, which pre-
vented me from publishing the new work, but
which I did not think my self bound to declare."

The following paragraph appeared in the addenda to the third volume of the Biographia, which differs fomewhat from the information I had given, and must have been drawn from fome other fource:

"The information given us, that Dr. Brown's" Principles of Chriftian Legislation" was nearly compleated, was erroneous. The work may more properly be faid to have been but just begun. The plan, which was immenfe, could not have taken lets than wenty volumes. The first volume he shewed to Dr. Balguy, and confulted him about the farther progrefs of the defign. Dr. Balguy took much pains to perfuade Dr. Brown to read before he went on to write. Even without reading he must have been very expeditions

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if he had finished the work in seven years. The plan was really a curiofity; and, if we could have obtained it, would have well deferved to have been printed."

The editor of the Biographia beft knows his reafons for inferting this curious paragraph in preference to the information I had given him. It certainly was very far from giving the fatisfaction I wished the publick to have on the fubject. I have only to add, that, though I may now confider myself, perhaps, as more at liberty than formerly to proceed as I think proper, I still have reasons, not unknown to the very learned and moft refpectable character introduced in. to the above paragraph, which prevent ine from publishing the "Principles of Chriftian Legiflation.”

At prefent I am unwilling to take up more of your valuable page. On a fu ture occafion I may probably tranfmit to you the plan of the work in quellion, as left by the Author. W. H.

Mr. URBAN,

ОЯ. 11. S the book fellers intend to favour A the publick with a new edition of the Biographical Dictionary, I thall take the liberty to fuggeft fome obfervations, which may be of ufe with rcfpect to the improvement of that valuable work.

I. The compilers should fubjoin pro per authorities for all remarkable anecdotes. The last very learned and judicious editor has, in general, attended to this rule; yet there are many confiderabie omiflions, which ought to be fupplied.

II. Lives of no great importance, which have been written in feparate volumes, or prefixed to pofthumous publications by partial editors, have been haftily adopted into the Biographical Dictionary. A prolix account of men who have had nothing but their reputed piety, their eccentricities, or fome infignificant publications, to recommend them, should, at least, be ab

breviated.

III. Many eminent writers are unnoticed. Thofe learned and induftrious criticks, commentators, grammarians, and editors, to whom we owe the revival of claffical learning, deserve an everlafting tribute of applaufe. Saxit Onomafticon will give the compilers of the Biographical Dictionary a full and comprehenfive view of the principal authors who have diftinguished themfelves in the republick of letters.

IV. Some of the best editions of the Greek and Roman clafficks, and the moft efteemed English tranflations, may be mentioned in their proper places.

brated authors fhould be fpecified, and, V. The principal works of all celeif poffible, in the order of publication. Thefe are the most important articles in the Lives of learned men. The space which a lift of their works will occupy will be no objection, if the titles are properly contracted *.

proprietors will commit the care of this VI. It is to be prefumed, that the important work to THOSE ONLY who

who are in the habit of writing in a are furnished with extenfive libraries; correct, clear,sterfe, unaffected style; CIMEN of their abilities; who are acwho have given the world SOME SPEquainted with the hiftory of literature, and capable of reviewing the characters,. the controverfies, and the works of the learned, with taste and judgement, with a critical penetration and a manly frees dom. PHILOBIBLOS.

Mr. URBAN, Winchester, Sept. 28.

A CORRESPONDENT, p. 696, de..

fires to have an explanation of a picture upon glafs, which you have engraved, in which an abbot with his crohind on the one hand, and a man richly zier is reprefented between a wounded other. It is the well-known figure of attired, in a fuppliant pofture, on the the celebrated St. Giles, the patron-faint doms. The hiftory of this renowned abof many churches in this and other kingconfounded with another abbot of the bot is much confuled, owing to his being fame name, and who refided in the fame province near two centuries before him. The beft account of him ftates, that he was a Grecian by birth, who, leaving his own country, came by fea to the mouth of the Rhone, in which neighbourhood, retiring into a deep foreft, he led an herherbs, and the milk of a tame hind. It metical life, being fupported only with is further added, that the reigning King bert, as fome hiftorians inform us, muft of France, who, if he was called Childehave been the third prince of that name, happening to hunt in that neighbourhood, the habitation of the hermit; at which his hounds puriued the tame hind into time the king's bow bearer difcharging

an arrow, it wounded the faint inftead of

Vid. Diarium Biographicum ab Henningo Witte. the